Peloni:  US sanctions rolled back!  This was a sizeable victory.  Well done Smotrich!

The USA has significantly reduced the sanctions it imposed on residents of Judea and Samaria following Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s threats of economic sanctions against Palestinian Authority banks.

Israel National News Mar 29, 2024

Bezalel Smotrich?????: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

The Biden administration has significantly reduced the sanctions imposed on seven residents of Judea and Samaria, allowing them to once again use their bank accounts.

According to the Israel Hayom, the American retraction comes following the threat by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to collapse the Palestinian economy.

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T. Belman.  Yes I know he wrote the Israel Lobby but what he has to say is right on regarding the Ukraine War. He also starts by explaining the difference between the Realist School of which he is a leader and the Liberal school that the West embraces.

The discussion of the Gaza War begins at 41.29. Please avoid it at all costs. The intervewer begins by calling it  a massacre or genocide and Mearsheimer begins by blaming the Israel Lobby. That was enough fo me and I stopped watching.

Biden administration officials reportedly in preliminary conversations on proposal to help fund either a multinational force or a Palestinian Arab peacekeeping team in post-war Gaza.

Israel National News  Mar 29, 2024, 6:25 AM (GMT+3)

IDF soldiers in GazaIDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Biden administration officials are in preliminary “conversations” about options for stabilizing post-war Gaza, including a proposal for the Pentagon to help fund either a multinational force or a Palestinian Arab peacekeeping team, Politico reported on Thursday.

The options being considered would not involve US troops on the ground, according to two Defense Department officials and two other US officials quoted in the report. Instead, DOD funding would go toward the needs of the security force and complement assistance from other countries.
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E. Rowell:  The news is getting out:  the propaganda campaign is astroturf.

By Warren Kinsella, TORONTO SUN 26 March 2024

Demonstrators in support of Palestinians wave Palestinian flags during a protest in Toronto on Oct. 9, 2023. PHOTO BY COLE BURSTON /AFP via Getty Images

Grassroots. Gotcha.
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By S. Hodges, AM THINKER

In his recent State of the Union, Joe Biden told Black Americans, “I have your back.” The 2020 presidential election showed that this statement is not unreasonable — according to polls, the Democrat candidate was supported by about 87% of black voters, as well as 67% and 63% of citizens with Asian and Hispanic roots, respectively. These are very serious figures — at the moment, people of color make up 25% of the entire U.S. population.

That group of voters is expected to be critical to Biden’s potential success on Nov. 5. It is easy to predict that most of the minority population is likely to vote for the incumbent. However, at the moment, the Biden administration has faced a tangible problem — the level of support for the Democrat president among the above-mentioned groups is steadily decreasing.
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E. Rowell:  Information recently surfaced that the successful massive campaign of lies presenting Palestinians as victims and turning history upside down and inside out was funded by George Soros NGOs.  It appears that while the globalists have endless funds to use to try to control the flow of information, they will never succeed.  There are just too many people now awake.

Journalist-daughter of key ally to Václav Havel offers evidence that the US government, the European Union, and George Soros are funding a crackdown on free speech in the Czech Republic

By Cecílie Jílková, PUBLIC        25 March 2024

Cecílie Jílková

Many in the West remember the heroism of Czech writers and artists in the fight for freedom of speech during totalitarian Communist rule. The most famous of these dissidents was Václav Havel. But another prominent figure who fought for freedom in the former Czechoslovakia was Ludvík Vaculík, my father. “He himself was censored for more than two decades,” noted the New York Times in its 2015 obituary, “but still managed to write a series of influential articles, books and novels…”

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E. Rowell:  Spoiler Alert: Hamas realizes they are beaten….for now.  Their plan is to make a “peace deal” in which they will get hundreds of murderers released from Israeli prison to go to the West Bank, and with their remaining forces, engage in a war of attrition which they believe will end with Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and Gaza.  If this or any Israeli government gives in to these delusional demands it will certainly be the end of Israel.

By Tom Nash           28 March 2024

By Clifford D. May, WASHINGTON TIMES                             26 March 2024

Israel fights Hamas alone illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times 

OPINION:

“Israel Alone” is the headline on the cover of the March 23 issue of The Economist, a British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli flag buffeted by a sandstorm.

I wonder if Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, is sitting in a tunnel under Rafah gazing at that image and if it’s brought a smile to his lips.

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The beleaguered State of Israel has become the scapegoat that must bear the sins of the West?—?imperialism, colonialism, and oppression

By JOSEF JOFFE, HOOVER INSTITUTE

The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz,” runs a bizarre quip ascribed to the Israeli psychiatrist Zvi Rex. To deconstruct it, consult Dr. Freud. “A convenient way to dispatch guilt,” he might expound, “is to project it onto your victim”?—?like a schoolyard bully who huffs that the fight started when the other guy hit back.Guilt-swapping is precisely what Hamas’s cheerleaders around the world did even before Israel struck back after October 7. Hamas had tortured, raped, and murdered 1,200 Israelis. Instead of condolences, Israel reaped a global orgy of antisemitism, be it masked or overt, that also engulfed Jews everywhere, especially university students (demonstrating that higher education is no antidote for frenzy). It was a perfect reversal of cause and effect.

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BY Clayton Morris, REDACTED                                                 26, March 2024

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By SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER    27 March 2024

Since the Krokus attacks occurred, the West has been in utter overdrive to pin the blame on ISIS while absolving Ukraine from any responsibility. The heavy-handed desperation with which they’ve gone to lengths in doing this reveals the game and tells us everything we need to know about the nature of the attacks.

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– President Trump Must Work On Counter-Strategy Before It’s Too Late

By Paul Ingrassia, GATEWAY           28 March 2024

The Uniparty is quietly scheming (again) to rig the system and prevent President Trump from ever becoming President.  This scheme involves a two-part strategy: using a combination of strategically planned retirements of Republican House members, coupled with the passage of carefully tailored legislation to remove President Trump from the ballot on bogus Insurrection grounds that would likely pass muster with moderate justices on the Supreme Court, like John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, who prefer to avoid deciding on “controversial” legal questions and risk being seen in a bad light by their liberal peers.

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Finance Minister Smotrich is acting to collapse the Palestinian Authority’s banks, contrary to the security establishment’s position.

Itzik Brandwein, INN / Mar 28, 2024

Minister Bezalel Smotrich

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is working to disconnect the Israeli banks from the Palestinians.

According to The Marker, the first step in the process is disconnecting the Israeli banks from the Palestinians, despite the opposition of the security system. Starting Monday, Palestinian banks will begin to be disconnected from Israeli ones, and with them, the rest of the world’s finances.”

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JNS TV,   March 28, 2024

Award-winning director and producer Eli Katzoff explores the frightening and potentially imminent scenario of war between Hezbollah and Israel. This JNS production takes a look at Hezbollah plans uncovered by Israel, and a look at Hezbollah’s immense arsenal of missiles. What damage could Hezbollah do to the Israeli homefront, and how would Israel respond to a Hezbollah attack?

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Lord Cameron employs double standards and an inversion of reality at a time when hatred of Jews is on an exponential rise

By Natasha Hausdorff, THE TELEGRAPH                                      25 March 2024

Lord Cameron with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in November

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Foreign Secretary’s latest demands of Israel reveal a concerning detachment from reality. The UK’s most recent posturing in this tragic state of affairs encourages the terrorists and is ultimately costing more lives.

There is no excuse for so consistently misrepresenting the humanitarian situation, when the facts on the provision of aid are so easily accessible.

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The American-manufactured aircraft can execute numerous intelligence missions simultaneously. For instance, it can clandestinely monitor a high-ranking official in Rafah, pinpoint the origin of a ballistic missile in Yemen, identify a weapons convoy between Iraq and Syria, locate a suspect near a nuclear reactor in Iran, and track a vehicle carrying senior officials that must be neutralized in the heart of Beirut’s Dahieh – all within a single sortie

By Yoav Zitun, CTECH/CALCALIST                                                     26 March 2024

The Oron Spy Plane/(Ministry of Defense)

Less than half a year after its debut at the Paris Air Show, the Israeli Air Force’s new intelligence aircraft became operational in the midst of the war. The Ministry of Defense capitalized on the conflict to expedite the operational assimilation process, typically lasting months, to mere days. At the conclusion, the Air Force declared the Oron aircraft fully operational.

Ynet and “Yedioth Ahronoth” have learned that the new and advanced intelligence aircraft, of which only major powers possess similar models, has already logged hundreds of operational flight hours in various theaters in recent weeks, totaling close to 100 missions. In each sortie from the Nahshon squadron (122), the American-manufactured aircraft can execute numerous intelligence missions simultaneously.

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By Martin Sherman 

When Israeli voters next go to the polls, over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumor, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion. 

The campaign [Breaking Dawn] has reinstated Israel’s deterrence and initiative – Yair Lapid – Ynet, Aug. 8, 2023—barely a year before the massacre of October 7. 

In the days preceding the surprise attack, senior figures in the IDF told the political leadership that Hamas was deterred…The deadly attack, which the terror organizations in the Strip launched, came after senior IDF officers informed the political leaders over the last fortnight that Hamas was deterred – Ynet, on the day of the October 7 massacre  Read more…

America is better than this administration.

By Shmuel Klatzkin, AMERICAN SPECTATOR                                        26 March 2024

Ah, the United Nations is finally reacting to the atrocities of Oct. 7! First, the UN cleaned house. Its United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, which has educated generations of Arab children to hate Jews and Israel, and whose employees participated in the rape, massacres, and hostage taking, has been completely reorganized and its criminal employees brought before the International Court of Justice for war crimes.

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